Introduction
What is a perspective of psychology that studies the unconscious?
psychoanalytic
What branches out from the body and receives messages from the cell bodies and other neurons and what is the tissue called that connects the two brain hemispheres.
dendrites; corpus callosum
Without saying the names of the receptors, how does the perception of color work?
Results from the reflection of particular wavelengths of the visual spectrum from the surfaces of objects.
When bodily functions fluctuate regularly from a high to a low point over a 24 hour period.
circadian rhythms
Ivan Pavlov's experiment that involved an unconditioned stimulus and an unconditioned response that was paired with a neutral stimulus which later became a conditioned stimulus is called?
Classical Conditioning
Modify the hypothesis and retest.
How do neurons transit messages?
Neurons are not connected but send and receive messages during a synapse or across the synaptic clefts.
Opponent Process Theory states that 3 kinds of cells respond by increasing and decreasing their rate of firing when different colors are present. What activity in class demonstrated this effect?
Located in the hypothalamus and controls the circadian rhythms also known as an internal clock.
suprachiasmatic nucleus SCN
When a conditioned response has become extinct but spontaneously reoccurs.
spontaneous recovery
Wilhelm Wundt
Fill in the blank:
BLANK is all of the nerves outside your skull and backbone and BLANK is all of the neural tissues inside the skull and backbone.
Peripheral nervous system; Central nervous system
What is the potential affect of hearing 140 decibels?
Pain or permanent hearing loss
What is the most important environmental cue for regulating circadian rhythms?
sun
This behavior psychologist designed an experiment that trained a rat to press a lever for food.
BF Skinner
In research design, what is the term when every member of the larger population has an equal chance of being included in the sample.
random sample
What is the part of the nervous system that controls your flight or fight response?
Sympathetic nervous system
A Gestalt Principle when objects or figures stand out from the background.
Figure-Ground
Lack of Learning, poor concentration, emotional irritability can all be a result from this behavior.
lack of sleep
Sam mother gives him $1 every second time he says thank you. What type of reinforcement schedule is this?
Fixed ratio reinforcement schedule.
True or false? Correlation between two variable indicates causation and informed consent help to protect the participant.
false
What part of the nervous system brings your body back to normal after flight or fight response.
parasympathetic nervous system
What is it when depth cues in a 2D drawing can make figures of the same size look different.
Ponzo Illusion
Coffee, Celsius, and Boba tea can help you stay awake because they include caffeine which is classified as a ?
stimulant
Jill has chores to wash dishes every Mon and Wed night. When Jill skipped out on Wed, she was grounded by her parents.
negative punishment